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slash Wall Street. From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal

this is Potomac Watch.

Welcome to Potomac Watch, the Daily Opinion Podcast of the Wall Street Journal.

I'm Paul Geego, editor of the editorial page of the journal.

And today I have a special guest, a Supreme Court Watcher,

Extraordinaire, Elie Shapiro.

He's a senior fellow and director of constitutional Studies at the Manhattan Institute,

formerly at Georgetown Law and the Cato Institute.

He's the author of Supreme Disorder, Judicial Nominations in the Politics of America's highest court and a

follower of the court and its cases for many years. Welcome Eilia, good to have you

here. Good to be back with you. If it's June, then we're talking Skotis.

When you put that title on your book, Supreme Disorder, I think you had no idea.

How bad it could get.

It's really gotten worse. So let's first talk about a couple of the

recent cases and how you think the Supreme Court term has gone here as it heads into the

home stretch in the next two weeks. Any big surprises?

Maybe the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau case,

for the challenge of the CFPB

that the court upheld its funding structure, 7 to 2,

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